A prototype Greek text to Greek Sign Language conversion system

Kouremenos, D; Fotinea, S-E; Efthimiou, E; Ntalianis, K

dc.contributor.author	Kouremenos, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Fotinea, S-E	en
dc.contributor.author	Efthimiou, E	en
dc.contributor.author	Ntalianis, K	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:32:31Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:32:31Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.issn	0144-929X	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/20170
dc.subject	MT	en
dc.subject	NLP	en
dc.subject	sign language	en
dc.subject	sign synthesis	en
dc.subject	signing avatar	en
dc.subject	text-to-sign conversion tool	en
dc.subject.classification	Computer Science, Cybernetics	en
dc.subject.classification	Ergonomics	en
dc.subject.other	Conversion systems	en
dc.subject.other	Cross-modal	en
dc.subject.other	E-learning platforms	en
dc.subject.other	Educational platforms	en
dc.subject.other	Existing systems	en
dc.subject.other	Integrated media	en
dc.subject.other	Knowledge elicitation	en
dc.subject.other	Lecture Notes	en
dc.subject.other	London , UK	en
dc.subject.other	Machine translations	en
dc.subject.other	NLP	en
dc.subject.other	Sign language	en
dc.subject.other	Sign language synthesis	en
dc.subject.other	Signing avatars	en
dc.subject.other	Thessaloniki , Greece	en
dc.subject.other	Web tools	en
dc.subject.other	Human computer interaction	en
dc.subject.other	Information theory	en
dc.subject.other	Knowledge acquisition	en
dc.subject.other	Knowledge management	en
dc.subject.other	Linguistics	en
dc.subject.other	Natural language processing systems	en
dc.subject.other	Speech transmission	en
dc.subject.other	Translation (languages)	en
dc.title	A prototype Greek text to Greek Sign Language conversion system	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1080/01449290903420192	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01449290903420192	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2010	en
heal.abstract	In this article, a prototype Greek text to Greek Sign Language (GSL) conversion system is presented. The system is integrated into an educational platform that addresses the needs of teaching GSL grammar and was developed within the SYNENNOESE project (Efthimiou et al. 2004a. Developing an e-learning platform for the Greek sign language. In: K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, and W. Zagler, eds. Computer helping people with special needs, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 3118, 1107-1113). The detailed implementation of the language-processing component of a Greek text to GSL conversion system is provided, focusing upon the inherent problems of knowledge elicitation of sign language (SL) grammar and its implementation within a parser framework. It is based on an SL dictionary (Efthimiou et al. 2004a) database of coded GSL knowledge. The proposed system has been designed and implemented after considering most state-of-the-art SL machine translation or Conversion systems, such as Vsigns (Papadogiorgaki et al. 2004. VSigns - a virtual sign synthesis web tool. In: Proceedings of Sixth COST 276 Workshop on Information and Knowledge Management for Integrated Media Communication, May 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece), ZARDOZ (Veale et al. 1998. The challenges of cross-modal translation: English to sign language translation in the ZARDOZ system. Machine Translation, 13, 81-106) and SignSynth (Angus 2001. SignSynth: a sign language synthesis application using Web3D and Perl. In: Gesture and Sign Lanauage in Human-Computer Interaction. London, UK: International Gesture Workshop), and taking into account their advantages and disadvantages. The overall architecture is innovative since other existing systems either do not consider the GSL or they cannot be effectively applied on sentences but just on single words. The system is demonstrable on any conventional PC. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.	en
heal.publisher	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD	en
heal.journalName	Behaviour and Information Technology	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/01449290903420192	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000280767500004	en
dc.identifier.volume	29	en
dc.identifier.issue	5	en
dc.identifier.spage	467	en
dc.identifier.epage	481	en